Category: Discussions

“How has someone who is a borderline rapist, murderer, and potential sociopath, endured through all these decades?” 

“What was the whole point of your training if you cannot do something, even in a pandemic?”

Campaigners want circus elephants placed in specially built sanctuaries. But their owners insist being separated from their human “families” would be traumatic.

Pocahontas may seem like a strange vehicle for discussing our gay villains. But Disney gets inventive when they need to circumvent white people’s historical responsibility for genocidal atrocities — and queerness is a useful scapegoat.

“I think there is a better-than-good chance that our behaviors will change as a result of this pandemic. I am currently creating a ledger and thinking about opportunities, not just for innovation, but for a better humanity.”

“One road unquestionably leads from Narnia to Brexit. Lewis would have hated the notion of a superstate with all the extra ‘meddling’ that implies.”

“I believe in reincarnation,” my 4-year-old announced, confidently. “And when I come back, I’m going to be a boy, and my name will be Shane.”

New arrivals didn’t hand Natives the keys to the modern world — but took the tools that built its foundations.

Can diet determine the future of your mental health? Claire Fitzsimmons attempts to find out through a month of Whole30.

Our last editors’ roundtable of the season, with guest Nick Chrastil.

What we all need to hear right now, with special guest Marisa Siegel, Editor in Chief of The Rumpus.

A Longreads Podcast interview with journalists James K. Williamson and Tim Requarth on writing about family.

Editors discuss the gender politics of music criticism, how young womxn drive conversations around cultural figures, institutionalized discrimination in sport, and more.

Longreads editors chat with Internet culture reporter Taylor Lorenz about ok boomer, TikTok, patriotism, and more.

On the fate of Deadspin, recent longreads on Airbnb and influencers, and the uncanny canon of Wakefield Press.

Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.

Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Miami New Times, The New Yorker, 5280 Magazine, and The Believer.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Politico.

Longreads editors discuss recent stories in Inc., The Cut, and The Baffler.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The Baffler, The New York Times Magazine, and the Kenyon Review.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Jezebel, Governing, and The New Yorker.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and a collaboration between Texas Monthly and The Texas Tribune.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, Eater, and Hakai Magazine.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Slate, The Cut, and The Goods by Vox.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Gay Magazine, The New Yorker, and Topic.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, Columbia Review of Journalism, The New York Times, and Pacific Standard.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Grub Street, The New Yorker, Gay Magazine, and The Verge.

Longreads editors discuss stories in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Outline, and CrimeReads.